Values Totally At Odds

There is the ever more astronomical cost, as there always is under the party of fiscal responsibility. But apart from that, Rwanda is hardly worth commenting upon. No one is going to be sent there, and it has never been suggested that any more than 200 people could have been.

No, the reason why the likes of Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick are making a fuss is because, as a tiny extremist minority that refuses to integrate, they are now barely even members of their own party, and the issue is not Rwanda. They want to remove Rishi Sunak so that they can remove David Cameron and Andrew Mitchell, who have dangerous tendencies towards the position of initially 76 per cent of the British population, although that figure would be even higher now, against those who heeded Braverman's call to riot at the Cenotaph on Armistice Day and stab the Police.

Britain has suffered Zionist terrorism before. I have been under direct personal threat of it for six years. For fear that it would be resumed over Christmas in the form of the attacks on churches that now characterised the Holy Land at the hands of the parties to its ruling coalition, Britain shamefully abstained on the United Nations Security Council motion for a ceasefire in Gaza with the release of all hostages.

But without the Labour Government that would have voted against that motion, action needs to be taken before its Emirati proposers had acquired the Daily Telegraph and The Spectator, not only, but not least, in order to block that acquisition. So while there is no suggestion of blocking the impending Saudi acquisition of Heathrow Airport, which would seem to matter more, here we are.

Cameron's foreign policy is far from perfect. He is extremely hawkish about Ukraine just when what some of us have been saying all along is being proved right, as it always is. But Israel is genuinely shocked to have lost the Ministry of Defence, and that under Grant Shapps. By and for a foreign power, the coup is on. It may as well be an invasion.

Although the seeds of the relationship go back a long way, Israel's partisans are now lined up with the #MeToo, #IBelieveHer and #BelieveAllWomen crowd, and vice versa. According to that lot, the active view that some or all adult sexual contact with some or all under-16s ought to be acceptable is far more common in this country than support for any war from Iraq onwards, at least, and vastly more so than the mere three per cent support, if that, for Israel's war in Gaza.

From a position that the overwhelming majority of the population considers not merely incorrect but obscene, that three per cent has all but the odd column and small circulation paper in the print media, two Freeview channels, the presenter's chair everywhere else, every sole interviewee's chair, one or two of every two panellists, two or three of every three panellists, three or four of every four panellists, and four or five of every five panellists.

Why not give paedophiles all but the odd column and small circulation paper in the print media, two Freeview channels, the presenter's chair everywhere else, every sole interviewee's chair, one or two of every two panellists, two or three of every three panellists, three or four of every four panellists, and four or five of every five panellists?

It cannot be because most people considered their position to be not merely incorrect but obscene, since that would preclude the hawks themselves. Nor can it be because there were not enough of them to justify it, since the hawks now have to believe that the nonces are much more numerous than they themselves are. On both issues, in view of Keir Starmer's record in relation to Jimmy Savile, Labour is now the greater evil, worse than the Tories. We should no more want it to win the next General Election than most of its MPs wanted it to win the last two, or than any of its staff wanted it to win the last four.

But when I tell you that there is going to be a hung Parliament, then you can take that to the bank. I spent the 2005 Parliament saying that it was psephologically impossible for the Heir to Blair's Conservative Party to win an overall majority. I predicted a hung Parliament on the day that the 2017 General Election was called, and I stuck to that, entirely alone, all the way up to the publication of the exit poll eight long weeks later. And on the day that Sunak became Prime Minister, I predicted that a General Election between him and Starmer would result in a hung Parliament.

To strengthen families and communities by securing economic equality and international peace through the democratic political control of the means to those ends, including national and parliamentary sovereignty, we need to hold the balance of power. Owing nothing to either main party, we must be open to the better offer. There does, however, need to be a better offer. Not a lesser evil, which in any case the Labour Party is not.